Problems with hasField('id')

[Henner7]

I have a question about the hasField function. I run the following code in site/templates/_main.php:

      $myPages = $pages->find('parent=/abteilungen')->sort('title');
      foreach($myPages as $item) {
        print $item->title."<br />";
        if($item->hasField('id')) {
            print "hasId";
        }
        else {
            print "hasNoId";
        }

I get for all items "hasNoId".  With processwire 3.0.123 and Php 7.2.13.

For older Php 5.6 and older processwire versions the field 'id' was found. Also, I know that each item should have a field 'id' anyway but I think this can not always be taken as granted.

Any suggestions?

[dragan]

Works here.

ProcessWire: 3.0.121
PHP: 7.2.12
Webserver: Apache/2.4
MySQL: 10.1.35-MariaDB

[dragan]

19 minutes ago, Henner7 said:

Also, I know that each item should have a field 'id' anyway but I think this can not always be taken as granted.

I don't know your setup / scenario, but if you need to make sure each page-type needs to have a certain field, you can configure your templates, i.e. don't allow pages with template x to be moved (change parent), or only allow children of 'abteilungen' to use template x.

[tpr]

Perhaps you need to check $item->template->hasField('id') instead.

[Robin S]

9 hours ago, Henner7 said:

Also, I know that each item should have a field 'id' anyway but I think this can not always be taken as granted.

A page's ID is a property of the page but it's not a field that belongs to the page's template/fieldgroup. So $page->hasField() would not be expected to return true for 'id'.

[szabesz]

I wonder what "valid" mean in this context: https://processwire.com/api/ref/page/has-field/

$page->hasField() => "Returns whether or not $field is valid for this Page"

Anyone can shed light on this for me?

[dragan]

Quote

 

Note that this only indicates validity, not whether the field is populated.

 

It basically means: Does that page (and hence, its template) has this field or not? I guess it's like a shortcut for page->template->hasField()

[szabesz]

1 hour ago, dragan said:

Does that page (and hence, its template) has this field or not?

Thanks, sure, the wording "hasField" does indeed imply that, it is just that using "valid" in this context is not something I remember seeing before.

[Henner7]

On 1/20/2019 at 1:54 PM, tpr said:

Perhaps you need to check $item->template->hasField('id') instead.

Thank you, however, this did not change anythin.

[Henner7]

20 hours ago, Robin S said:

A page's ID is a property of the page but it's not a field that belongs to the page's template/fieldgroup. So $page->hasField() would not be expected to return true for 'id'.

Thank you, I assume this is the final answer. Something seems to have changed in the last versions of processwire.

I did a further test: If I try to create a field "id", I get the error message: Field name "id" is a reserved word. Therefore there can never be a field called 'id' in a template.

[Robin S]

11 hours ago, szabesz said:

I wonder what "valid" mean in this context

I agree the wording could be clearer here.

If you look at the method code for Page::hasField() it is:

return $this->template ? $this->template->fieldgroup->hasField($field) : false;

So it's just an alias for Fieldgroup::hasField() where the fieldgroup is that used by the page's template. And the explanation for Fieldgroup::hasField() is:

Quote

Does this fieldgroup having the given field?

Not great English but you get the meaning. So if the given field name / field id / field object is not part of the page's fieldgroup then Page::hasField() will return false.

 

@Henner7, if your intention is to check whether $item has an ID property and the property is not 0 (i.e. it is not a NullPage) then typically you would just check the "truthiness" of the ID property...

if($item->id) {
    //...
}

 

[Henner7]

On 1/21/2019 at 10:17 PM, Robin S said:

if your intention is to check whether $item has an ID property and the property is not 0 (i.e. it is not a NullPage) then typically you would just check the "truthiness" of the ID property...

Thanks, I have overseen this easy approach.

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